NaNoWriMo tactic: Manually count the people around, describing them all
Feeling rather desperate for words as I had not written in three days (I spent half my weekend going "oh shit music project!" and the other half going "I am so tired"), that is what I resorted to, getting just over two hundred words that way. XD So that's 2843 words out of fifty thousand. I'm screwed :)
“Where else did you go?”
Her blue eyes almost glitter manically, the way they always do when she’s about to embark on a rant on something she’s passionate about. I can feel a historical rant coming on... “Went to Wales in the summer, did the tourist thing with my cousin Myfanwy; she’s awesome, you lot would like her I reckon. She’s living in this city called Newport for uni, it’s a bit of a hole but there were looots of nightclubs, and there was a pretty neat metal sculpture thing called the Wave, and there were these canals all over the place. Cos the city’s like, on the banks of the River Usk; and apparently King Arthur fought off the Saxons nearby and sailed down the Usk to Caerleon. And there was this big bridge across the Usk where you, like, go on a thing,” she walks two fingers of her left hand onto the palm of her right, “and it goes across a thingy,” she moves both hands across, “and apparently it’s like, one of the only two bridges like that in the world, who would’ve known a hole like Newport would have such a hard out bridge? The ward of Newport Muvvy’s actually from, Caerleon, had all this stuff left over from the Roman days like an ampitheatre and a bathhouse, you’d love it, Ari. And it had cobbled roads! We also went up to Caerphilly Castle, it was gigantic, and it had this leaning tower seriously steeper than the Leaning Tower of Pisa-”
“Cate is obviously still stuck in the past,” quips Maggie usefully.
I laugh. I’ve just been sitting here beaming like an idiot. I never quite realized how much I missed Cate’s inane explanations of mechanical concepts overusing the word “thing” that she expects you to understand (unlike most people, I usually did), her ranting passion for things of the past long gone, and ‘Ari’, her personal little nickname for me that I never let anyone else use. Maggie’s right, really; Cate is stuck in the past.
For you lot living in the UK, I've never been to Wales :P all that information's from Johanna, who lived there a bit ago, and the eternally useful Wikipedia.
I've decided that being on Neighbours is carcinogenic :D Delta Goodrem, Kylie Minogue, anyone else?
Oh! That shitty essay I wrote on Friday? It didn't even Not Achieve :D it got "see me". So I did, and I was all "that was an impromptu decision cos I was sick of writing the same essay over and over!" and she was all "yeah, it was a bit risky, you'd probably be better off just regurgitating in the exams" XD
Today I learned that a group of hedgehogs is called a prickle. What did you learn?
“Where else did you go?”
Her blue eyes almost glitter manically, the way they always do when she’s about to embark on a rant on something she’s passionate about. I can feel a historical rant coming on... “Went to Wales in the summer, did the tourist thing with my cousin Myfanwy; she’s awesome, you lot would like her I reckon. She’s living in this city called Newport for uni, it’s a bit of a hole but there were looots of nightclubs, and there was a pretty neat metal sculpture thing called the Wave, and there were these canals all over the place. Cos the city’s like, on the banks of the River Usk; and apparently King Arthur fought off the Saxons nearby and sailed down the Usk to Caerleon. And there was this big bridge across the Usk where you, like, go on a thing,” she walks two fingers of her left hand onto the palm of her right, “and it goes across a thingy,” she moves both hands across, “and apparently it’s like, one of the only two bridges like that in the world, who would’ve known a hole like Newport would have such a hard out bridge? The ward of Newport Muvvy’s actually from, Caerleon, had all this stuff left over from the Roman days like an ampitheatre and a bathhouse, you’d love it, Ari. And it had cobbled roads! We also went up to Caerphilly Castle, it was gigantic, and it had this leaning tower seriously steeper than the Leaning Tower of Pisa-”
“Cate is obviously still stuck in the past,” quips Maggie usefully.
I laugh. I’ve just been sitting here beaming like an idiot. I never quite realized how much I missed Cate’s inane explanations of mechanical concepts overusing the word “thing” that she expects you to understand (unlike most people, I usually did), her ranting passion for things of the past long gone, and ‘Ari’, her personal little nickname for me that I never let anyone else use. Maggie’s right, really; Cate is stuck in the past.
For you lot living in the UK, I've never been to Wales :P all that information's from Johanna, who lived there a bit ago, and the eternally useful Wikipedia.
I've decided that being on Neighbours is carcinogenic :D Delta Goodrem, Kylie Minogue, anyone else?
Oh! That shitty essay I wrote on Friday? It didn't even Not Achieve :D it got "see me". So I did, and I was all "that was an impromptu decision cos I was sick of writing the same essay over and over!" and she was all "yeah, it was a bit risky, you'd probably be better off just regurgitating in the exams" XD
Today I learned that a group of hedgehogs is called a prickle. What did you learn?